Setting The World Ablaze

Author : John E. Ferling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195150841
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting the World Ablaze written by John E. Ferling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the World Ablaze tells the story of the American Revolution and of three Founders who played crucial roles in winning the War of Independence and creating a new nation: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. A leading historian of the Revolutionary era, Ferling draws upon an unsurpassed command of the primary sources and a talent for swiftly moving narrative to give us intimate views of each of these men. He provides both an overarching historical picture of the era and a gripping sense of how these conservative men--successful members of the colonial elite--were transformed into radical revolutionaries.

Author : John E. Ferling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting the World Ablaze written by John E. Ferling and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Ferling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199728817
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting the World Ablaze written by John Ferling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-06 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the World Ablaze is the story of the three men who, perhaps more than any others, helped bring the United States into being: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Braiding three strands into one rich narrative, John Ferling brings these American icons down from their pedestals to show them as men of flesh and blood, and gives us a new understanding of the passion and uncertainty of the struggle to form a new nation. A leading historian of the Revolutionary era, Ferling draws on an unsurpassed command of the primary sources and a talent for swiftly moving narrative to give us intimate views of each of these men. More than any scholar before him, Ferling shows us both the overarching historical picture of the era and a gripping sense of how these men encountered the challenges that faced them. At close quarters, we see Washington, containing a profound anger at British injustice within an austere demeanor; Adams, far from home, struggling with severe illness and French duplicity in his crucial negotiations in Paris; and Jefferson, distracted and indecisive, confronting uncertainties about his future in politics. John Adams, in particular, emerges from the narrative as the most underappreciated hero of the Revolution, while Jefferson is revealed as the most overrated of the Founders, although the most eloquent. Setting the World Ablaze shows in dramatic detail how these conservative men--successful members of the colonial elite--were transformed into radical revolutionaries, and in doing so, it illuminates not just the special genius of these three leaders, but the remarkable transformation of His Majesty's colonies into the United States.

Author : John D. Wright
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504951832
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Smallest Spark written by John D. Wright and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not many teenagers would take interest in the eternal welfare of a convicted murderer. Even fewer would have interest in becoming a nun cut off from the outside world—while still a teenager. And still fewer would be able to discern a meaningful significance to suffering in general. Thérèse Martin did all that and more. She embraced all the suffering she could handle both physically and spiritually, striving to offer all of it so that good could be brought of it until her death at the age of twenty-four. This book attempts to narrate from multiple perspectives the true story of the hidden life of an unknown young woman who, after her death, would come to be known as the Greatest Saint of Modern Times.

Author : Saint Catherine (of Siena)
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809122332
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dialogue written by Saint Catherine (of Siena) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), mystic and Doctor of the Church, wrote The Dialogue, her crowning spiritual work, for "the instruction and encouragement of all those whose spiritual welfare was her concern."

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547250
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting the East Ablaze written by Peter Hopkirk and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe failed to materialize. 'The East will help us conquer the West.' Peter Hopkirk's book tells for the first time the story of the Bolshevik attempt to set the East ablaze with the heady new gospel of Marxism. Lenin's dream was to liberate the whole of Asia, but his starting point was British India. A shadowy undeclared war followed. Among the players in this new Great Game were British spies, Communist revolutionaries, Muslim visionaries and Chinese warlords - as well as a White Russian baron who roasted his Bolshevik captives alive. Here is an extraordinary tale of intrigue and treachery, barbarism and civil war, whose violent repercussions continue to be felt in Central Asia today.

Author : Peter Hopkirk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192851666
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Setting the East Ablaze written by Peter Hopkirk and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the European revolution failed to materialize, Lenin decreed, Let us turn our faces towards Asia. The East will help us to conquer the West.'

Author : Craig Harline
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190275189
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World Ablaze written by Craig Harline and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not always easy to find the human Martin Luther underneath the centuries of accumulated myth. This book focuses on the drama and uncertainty of the first few critical years of Luther's rise, when his personal struggles with salvation were transformed into a crisis of Christendom

Author : John Ferling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199728542
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adams vs. Jefferson written by John Ferling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. Adams vs. Jefferson is the gripping account of a turning point in American history, a dramatic struggle between two parties with profoundly different visions of how the nation should be governed. The Federalists, led by Adams, were conservatives who favored a strong central government. The Republicans, led by Jefferson, were more egalitarian and believed that the Federalists had betrayed the Revolution of 1776 and were backsliding toward monarchy. The campaign itself was a barroom brawl every bit as ruthless as any modern contest, with mud-slinging, scare tactics, and backstabbing. The low point came when Alexander Hamilton printed a devastating attack on Adams, the head of his own party, in "fifty-four pages of unremitting vilification." The stalemate in the Electoral College dragged on through dozens of ballots. Tensions ran so high that the Republicans threatened civil war if the Federalists denied Jefferson the presidency. Finally a secret deal that changed a single vote gave Jefferson the White House. A devastated Adams left Washington before dawn on Inauguration Day, too embittered even to shake his rival's hand. With magisterial command, Ferling brings to life both the outsize personalities and the hotly contested political questions at stake. He shows not just why this moment was a milestone in U.S. history, but how strongly the issues--and the passions--of 1800 resonate with our own time.

Author : Colleen Swaim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764820298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ablaze written by Colleen Swaim and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shares stories of eight young men and women whose selfless heroism and refusal to deny their faith led to their becoming saints of the Christian church, including Saint Teresa of the Andes, Saint Stanislaus Kostka, and Blessed Pedro Calungsod.